28 November 2023; Madrid, Spain: Bigcrafters, the new digital delivery platform for artisan products powered by Estrella Galicia, has selected Mangopay, a modular and flexible payment infrastructure provider for marketplaces and platforms, as its new payment partner.
Through its new Spanish marketplace, Bigcrafters aims to make it easy for consumers to enjoy the best craft experience through easy access to artisanal products, and offer craft businesses an online sales platform for their products. The initiative is designed to help accelerate the bigcraft movement to support small businesses and their positive impact on the planet.
Mangopay provides its flexible modular payments infrastructure to platforms and marketplaces of all types to create payment flows which enable them to provide locally relevant services with the ability to scale.
Through the new collaboration, Mangopay will support payments between consumers and Bigcrafters sellers, and enable the seamless onboarding of new local businesses to the platform.
“We are very proud of the growth that BigCrafters is experiencing, as a community of producers who, like us, want to challenge the status quo, love things to be well made and create products with passion. Our ultimate goal is to build positive impact commerce that reconnects society with the community of small and large artisans," said Ignacio Rivera, president of Hijos de Rivera Corporation. “In launching our new marketplace, working with Mangopay has simplified seller onboarding and payouts for us, enabling consumers to enjoy great artisanal produce, and helping crafters to start selling and accepting payments quickly and easily.”
“We’re delighted to be supporting Estrella Galicia on its mission to drive the bigcraft movement and support local businesses in Spain,” said Nicolas Fournie, Head of Sales for Mangopay in Spain. “Our team at Mangopay is passionate about making payments simple for marketplaces - whether that’s established, global platforms or those which are just starting out. We don't believe in ‘one size fits all’, so a new initiative like Bigcrafters was the perfect example of how we can use our modular technology to create a unique solution with specific marketplace needs in mind. Bigcrafters brings a fresh way of thinking to support local artisanal business and we’re excited to help them launch in Spain, and about the future of our collaboration.”
